Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

As Zero expected, the original version of the Zerg's "immune system" was produced by Sass only half a month later, and was verified to be feasible in experiments.

This is undoubtedly another milestone event, which is of great significance to the Zerg.

It means that the Zerg no longer have no subjective resistance to attacks from the micro level, and can even launch a counterattack under certain conditions!

Of course, achieving this is not without cost. The most obvious point is that after this, the cost of incubation of the Zerg has increased significantly. After calculation, it has increased by about 7% on average. This cost is It is inevitable to build an "immune system".

In addition, although this kind of bug is usually dormant for a long time when it is in the body of the Zerg unit, when it is operating at full strength, the energy consumption in a short period of time is also extremely terrifying. The amount of food required by the Zerg to maintain daily activities , completely unable to meet the demand.

If it is not supplemented in time, it will be the Zerg Seven Injury Fist that hurts itself before hurting the enemy.

So accomplishing this is far from the end, just the beginning.

Not to mention the research and enhancement of this "immune system" at a more minute level, just to meet the energy consumption of the Zerg's immune system, a standing energy storage structure is needed to meet the demand.

On this basis, Zero also put forward more requirements, that is, the recovery function of the organisms that still remain after the completion of the immunity activity.

These two items will inevitably increase the cost of incubation of Zerg individuals again, but this is the price that must be paid to evolve into a strong one. In comparison, some resources are really insignificant.

Seriously speaking, it is not difficult to complete these two transformations. They are just details based on the Zerg's "immune system". No matter which one of the two it is, it will not be too difficult for Sass to implement it.

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In the two years when Sass was obsessed with digesting the knowledge from the lizardfolk civilization, the Zerg's sphere of influence above the ocean expanded significantly.

Estimating based on the size of the explored area and the mileage traveled by the Zerg around the world, the area they occupy now is about one-seventh of the entire planet!

Of course, it is not a complete occupation. At least in the deep sea area, the Zerg has not set foot in it, but it is already amazing enough to reach this point.

This is an extremely large area, roughly estimated to be about 70 to 80 million square kilometers!

In this area, Zerg activities can be seen everywhere. It is not too dense, but there is at least one Zerg camp every few hundred miles.

This also means that, at least on the surface of the earth and the shallow sea, within the observable range, there is very little that can escape Zero's gaze.

The Zerg's explorations during this period did not find anything worth writing about. There were some islands and lands where lizardmen existed, but they were all in the ignorant stage of civilization and were easily annihilated by the Zerg.

But speaking of this, there are some interesting things.

Zero has always been blind to lizardmen. Except for a limited number of lizardmen such as Sommer, he was completely unaware of any superficial differences between other lizardmen.

In fact, this should be a very common phenomenon. After all, for foreign races, few people can accurately distinguish their appearance at a glance, unless they have particularly obvious features.

But this time the lizard people discovered by the insect swarm, even the face-blind Zero could identify the difference between them and the lizard people they encountered before.

Because they may not be considered real lizard people, or not the kind of lizard people that Zero knows, even if they do have a very similar appearance to lizard people, and Zero estimates that there is no relationship between the two parties. Reproductive isolation exists.

However, Zero believes that the lizard people in the civilized system and these beings who are tentatively called "savages" are completely similar to two kinds of creatures, and this point has been verified by the Zerg's subsequent observation of their body structures. In addition to being physically savage, they may be far inferior to normal lizardmen in intelligence.

Zero doesn't know what kind of creatures the ancient ancestors of the lizard-men race are, but these "savages" should be more like their ancestors than lizard-men. In other words, instead of calling them lizard-men, it is better to call them directly. for lizards.

This is the first time Zero has encountered this situation. The differences between the same race are so huge, which is indeed an interesting thing during the Zerg exploration.

Of course, these lizards with low intelligence are not qualified to see Sars alive, and there is no need for their corpses to be studied by Sars. Becoming nourishment for the Zerg is their final destination.

Even though their tribe actually occupies a large continent, this will not affect the progress of the Zerg at all.

Great unified empires as powerful as the Sadman Empire fell apart and completely perished under the feet of the insect swarm, let alone the most primitive existence like them.

If Zero still retains a bit of basic respect for the lizardman civilization, treating them like a swarm of insects is no different from killing wild beasts.

They can neither provide technological progress to the Zerg nor show any value that can be studied. Even their own bodies are weakened versions of the lizardmen that have been thoroughly studied by the Zerg.

Therefore, there is no need for Zero to learn the other party's chaotic language. Becoming a nutrient in the hatchery is the greatest contribution they can make to the Zerg.

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In addition to actively studying parasites, or the reason why the newly born Zerg micro-units cannot survive in other media besides the living body, we have been studying the Zerg vegetativeization under the observation at the cellular level. , Sass or Zerg finally made progress.

It has to be said that the Lizardmen still gave the Zerg a great gift. If there is no research from the micro level, I am afraid that this opportunity may really be missed!

Under this subtle level of observation, the mysterious boundary between producers and consumers was finally revealed to the Zerg, but in a way that Zero had never thought of.

It's funny to say that Zero originally thought that the Zerg's ability to obtain energy from the outside world would fall on plants, but he didn't expect that after Sass obtained complete civilization and technological achievements from the lizard people, by chance, this The mysterious realm that has always been closed to the Zerg has opened a gap for the first time.

Ever since Sass showed its powerful ability to analyze and even copy various creatures, the Zerg will try their best to catch or kill any creature they can see and capture along the way, and send it to their side for them to eat. Research.

This tradition has not changed to this day, even if they are no longer what they used to be. Regardless of whether they are exploring the ocean or land, Zero will try his best to send a copy of the new species he encounters to Sass.

The turning point came from this tradition.

After the Zerg defeated the lizardmen on the ocean, during the nearly two years of scientific research in Sars, the Zerg swarm responsible for exploring the ocean greatly expanded the Zerg's sphere of influence. They also encountered many strange creatures. Of course, That's not the point.